By Nick Harkaway
From the acclaimed writer of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy because the forces of fine sq. off opposed to the forces of evil, and in basic terms an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can shop the area from overall destruction.
Joe Spork spends his days solving old clocks. The son of notorious London legal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has became his again on his family’s mobster background and goals to reside a quiet lifestyles. That orderly lifestyles is unexpectedly upended while Joe prompts a very strange clockwork mechanism. His customer, Edie Banister, is greater than the kindly outdated girl she seems to be—she’s a retired foreign undercover agent. And the gadget? It’s a Nineteen Fifties doomsday desktop. Having caused it, Joe now faces the wrath of either the British executive and a diabolical South Asian dictator who's additionally Edie’s previous arch-nemesis. at the upside, Joe’s received a lady: a daring receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and intercourse allure might be simply what he wishes. With Joe’s once-quiet international unexpectedly overrun via mad clergymen, psychopathic serial killers, medical geniuses and threats to the way forward for awake lifestyles within the universe, he realizes that the single technique to live on is to muster the braveness to struggle, support Edie entire a project she deserted years in the past and decide up his father’s outdated gun . . .
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